Kyiv patrol police leadership dismissed after terrorist attack – Interior Ministry

Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko has said the entire leadership chain of Kyiv's Patrol Police Department has been dismissed following misconduct by patrol officers during a terrorist attack in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district.

Source: Klymenko during a meeting with journalists

Quote: "As regards personnel decisions following the results of an internal investigation, the entire chain has now been removed from their posts – from platoon commander to the head of the Kyiv Patrol Police Department. This may not be the final set of personnel decisions. All decisions are made by the head of the National Police. They will provide official communication on the matter."

Details: The minister added that he demands that only personnel with combat experience be appointed as deputies responsible for service training in every unit.

Previously:

• Investigators are treating the killing of civilians in Kyiv as a terrorist attack that resulted in fatalities.
• Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that the death toll from the shooting in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district had risen to six, while nine injured people were hospitalised and six others received assistance at the scene, including a four-month-old baby. The death toll later rose to seven.
• Klymenko has ordered an internal investigation into the actions of police officers during the terrorist attack.
• Following the terrorist attack in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district that killed seven people, Klymenko described the behaviour of police officers who fled the scene as shameful and stated that people must be given the right to armed self-defence.

Background:

• On 18 April, a man opened fire in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district, killing and injuring people. Police conducted a special operation to detain the attacker.
• The man who carried out the fatal shooting was later killed during the operation to arrest him.
• According to Ukrainska Pravda sources, his name was Dmytro Vasylchenkov and he was born on 21 April 1968 in Moscow. He held Ukrainian citizenship and had previously lived in Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, before moving to Kyiv's Holosiivskyi district.
• Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko confirmed that the shooter was a 58-year-old Moscow-born man.
• Klymenko said the shooter had used a registered weapon during the attack.

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